Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape

FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape focuses on the radical evolution of computational and material technologies that,...
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Author: Ila Berman
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Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape by Berman, Ila

Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape

$778.28

Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape

$778.28
Author: Ila Berman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape focuses on the radical evolution of computational and material technologies that, during the last 25 years, have catalyzed one of the most creative and prolific periods in architecture since the early 20th century.

The widespread uptake of computational tools did not yield a singular architectural or urban typology despite the sharing of genetic traits derived from the use of common tools, methods and even materials. Rather, the heterogenous products of this period, organized in this book through a taxonomy of eight themes--Stacked Aggregates, Modular Assemblages, Pixelated Fields, Cellular Clusters, Serial Iterations, Woven Meshes, Emergent Surfaces, and Multi-Agent Networks--each of which explores a dominant logic and set of morphological traits, reflect the complexity of advancing tools, logics, and systems whose evolution continues to breed new evolutionary types and an unlimited diversity of architectural species.

These themes are theoretically explored and elaborated through the presentation of 145 built works and experimental architectural projects, which are then expanded through analytical and generative diagrams and models that further the design potential of the logics used to create them. Within the book, the architectures presented are considered as a population of objects responsible for the evolution of something that far exceeds the trajectory of a single project. They are thus explored less as autonomous works than as a collection of interrelated and interacting cultural artifacts in flux, whose formation, methods, and tools, as well as their experience, perception, and meaning are necessarily tied to a broader field of cultural production, contributing to the dynamic generation of new architectural and urban models.

Author: Ila Berman, Andrew Kudless
Publisher: Applied Research & Design
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.60lbs
Size: 11.80h x 9.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781940743004

About the Author
Berman, Ila: - Ila Berman, principal of Scaleshift design and the newly appointed O'Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, is an architect, theorist, and curator of architecture and urbanism whose research investigates the relationship between culture and the evolution of contemporary material and spatial practices.Kudless, Andrew: - Andrew Kudless is the founder of the design firm Matsys and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His work investigates the emergent and integral relationships between form, growth, and behavior in material systems.

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